Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co and Monster World

Content:Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co.Price: 800 Microsoft Points Availability:Check availability in your Xbox LIVE regionDash Text: Experience a blast from past with this collection of classic Sega titles! Save kingdoms, shatter time trials, and destroy evil in Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Super Hang-on, and The Revenge of Shinobi! Now available on Xbox LIVE, Alex Kidd & Company have been updated with all new achievements, challenging new trial modes, and other goodies like recordable and downloadable game sessions, 3D mode in Super Hang-on, in game juke boxes, and the original Japanese dialogue!

Content:Sega Vintage Collection: Monster WorldPrice: 800 Microsoft Points Availability:Check availability in your Xbox LIVE regionDash Text: Bring peace back to Monster World in these three classic action RPG titles: Wonder Boy in Monster Land, Wonder Boy in Monster World, and for the first time outside of Japan, Monster World IV! Now available for download on Xbox LIVE, the Monster World saga features all new achievements, challenging new trial modes, Xbox LIVE Leaderboards, and recordable and downloadable game sessions!

Why would the trials be limited to the first game in each set? It’s even more baffling when the selling point of Monster World is MWIV, but you can’t play it in the trial. I love these titles and I’m probably buying the collection anyway (since MWIV never got a US release), but in terms of marketing, that’s a huge fail.

What in the world… oh man I forgot the original Alex Kidd box art was taken from somebody’s kindergarten fridge art.
It is a crying shame they don’t trust the franchise enough to bundle 3 of the Kidd games together. But having played all of them, they certainly picked the best game. Just the worst art.😉

And technically Wii Virtual Console two weeks ago was the first time release of MWIV, but this is a much much better value for all these games, even if your Wii is hooked up.

I’m not even sure if he does his own blog. He doesn’t post or update it for a few weeks, reads like MS press releases. He will probably post ten seconds after I write this so I think he isn’t a seven foot robot. Meh.

You can select which region’s version to play. This means we’re FINALLY getting Bare Knuckle 3!

Okay so when Sega of America ported Streets of Rage 3 they’d butchered it from the original, making it worse than the original Japanese release in every way. The original release is up there with Streets or Rage 2. Trust me, when SoR Collection comes out next week switch SoR3 to Japanese. You won’t regret it.

Back on-topic, the Japanese version of Monster World on this collection is actually easier. Good luck reading anything though.